- Serious and intentional limits on the amount of energy consumed with food (calorie intake). For example, this could be following a well-known diet, or simply counting calories and setting hard limits.
- Limiting a variety of foods and eating the same type of food:
- Low Carbohydrate Diets: Protein Diet, Atkins Diet;
- fat-poor diet;
- juice diet.
- Irregular meals:
- hourly diet;
- Diet 5: 2 (five days a week we eat normally and two days a week - we limit ourselves significantly in food);
- skipping meals;
- "Fasting days", i. e. refusing to eat on certain days.
Who's on the diet?
Diets are common and popular. It is believed that about half of normal-weight women have tried dieting. One study found that about 70% of 15-year-old girls are on a diet and 8% of them follow an extremely strict diet. Another study found that about 70% of women and 45% of dieters are not overweight and do not need to follow any diet.
The diet is preceded by dissatisfaction with your body and the desire to lose weight.
A UK study found that two-thirds of 14-15 year old girls and half of 12-13 year old girls want to lose a few pounds. I stopped eating at least once.
dietary risk
Anorexia increases the risk of eating disorders. Scientists have found that if teenage girls eat a moderate diet, the risk of developing an eating disorder increases five times, and with a strict diet - eighteen times.
Oftentimes, strict diets contribute to excess weight. 95% of those following a diet to lose weight gain more than the weight lost as a result of the diet over the next two years. This is due to the fact thatDuring the diet, people experience constant hunger, greatly limiting the number of calories and variety of dishes. Dieters may ignore hunger for a short period of time, but after long diets the appetite increases even more. This, in turn, leads to feelings of guilt and failure, which can increase dissatisfaction with you and your body. Some people stick to the same cycle of dieting throughout their lives – that is, dieting every day. The day takes up a certain amount of their time and energy.
In addition, diets have been found to slow down the metabolism – the rate at which calories are burned.
The normal metabolic rate is restored some time after the person returns to a healthy and adequate diet.
A strict diet affects both mental and physical health. Bad breath, fatigue, overeating, headaches and cramps, constipation, sleep disturbances and possibly bone destruction may appear.
Diet can alter the body's natural responses to food, needs, and hunger. When a person ceases to feel hunger and satiety, he may stop separating his emotional needs from hunger.
Why do we go on a diet?
Many people of normal weight consider themselves to be overweight and want to lose weight by dieting. Also, many overweight people want to lose those extra pounds and believe that diet will help them.
It is known that almost the world's population is overweight, but almost twice as many people want to lose weight.
They are on diets to get slimmer. There are many reasons for the worldwide discovery of thinness, one of which is the equally common fear of being fat. It turns out that such fear is already manifested in elementary school studentsFor some reason, perfection is considered something shameful and reprehensible in our society.
Through advertising, people's desire to go on a diet is supported by companies focusing on everything related to diet (diet, books, groceries and other items). Since we are in a highly lucrative industry, so the diet industry is uncharacteristically optimistic about the diet. In fact, it has been found that up to half of people on the diet gain weight—only a few of them maintain the weight lost as a result of the diet for five years. are capable of.
The success of a strict diet depends on many physical and mental factors, and in obesity, it is highly ineffective for weight loss.